Breaking The Waves Critic Reviews

One of the most haunting and vital movies of the year.Read the full review

Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant.Read the full review

True art is a journey to somewhere you've never been, and there has never been a movie quite like Breaking the Waves.Read the full review

What Von Trier arrives at is a complex, contemporary, and deeply moving exploration of faith.Read the full review

"Waves" is a spellbinder.Read the full review

A narrative path leading from the sincere to the ludicrous, and culminating in a final image of flabbergasting transcendance, gives Breaking the Waves its surprising power.Read the full review

Watson is a major find as Bess. Graced with delicate, expressive features, she gives an extraordinary performance.Read the full review

If not for a somewhat forced catharsis during the epilogue (the weakest segment of the movie), Breaking the Waves would have been more wrenching than it is.Read the full review

Audiences are likely to embrace Breaking the Waves as something rare and fierce and innovative, a passport into the depths of passion, but some people will reconsider when they get home.Read the full review